Tent



Nov. a, 1925.

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TENT

Filed April 3. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Ava/57' N Jrroe Patented Nov. 3, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST VJ. SKOG, F MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

TENT.

Application filed April 3, 1922. Serial No. 549,312.

To all 207mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUoUsr 1V. Snoe, a citizen of the United States, resident of Minneapolis, county of T-Tennepin, State of lcfinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tents, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to pro-- vide a tent composed of separable frame sections which can be readily taken apart and setup and when in knock-down form capable of being bundled compactly and stored on the running board or tonneau of an automobile for convenient transportation from place to place.

A further and particular object is to provide the canvas cover of the tent in separable sections so that instead of being rolled up in one bundle and completely filling the tenneau, or some other part of the car, the canvas can be distributed in different places and considerable space in the car left for other articles, which ordinarily would be entirely occupied by the folded tent.

5 A further object is to provide a tent so constructed that it will be practically impervious to wind and moisture.

The invention consists generally in various constructions and combinations, all as hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tent embodying my invention,

Figure 2 is a similar view of the frame or skeleton before the canvas is applied,

Figure 3 is a detail sectional View illustrating the manner of securing the canvas panels to the end frames,

Figure 4C is a detail view of one of the hooks to which the canvas panels are connected.

Figure 5 is a detail sectional view showing the manner of mounting the ridge pole in the end frame or gables of the tent,

Figure 6 is a detail view showing the pre- :lerred construction of the gable cap and the means for attaching the guy rope there-to.

In the drawing, 2 and 3 represent the rafters at one end of the tent, a similar construction being provided at the other end, which I do not illustrate, as it is not necessary for clear understanding of the tent construction. The upper ends of the rafters are beveled, as at 4, to abut one another, and a triangular cap 5 is fitted over the abutting ends of the rafters and has holes (3 therein to receive a spindle 7 on the end of the ridge pole 8. This spindle projeots through the cap and the ridge pole has freedom of movement therein to allow for outward movei'nent of the rafters when the guy ropes are. tightened. The cap 5 has a depending member 5 having a hole 9 therein in which the guy rope 10 is secured, the other end being fastened to a peg 11 in the ground in the usual manner. When these guy ropes are tightened, the rafters will be pulled apart and the roof panels drawn taut, as will hereinafter appear. The rafters have boxes 12 at their lower ends provided with sockets to receive the upper ends of posts 13 which form the corners of the tent, and correspond in height to the wall panels, said boxes being angled in form to provide a connecting means between the upper ends of the posts and the lower ends of the rafters, and, if preferred, these boxes may be secured by pins or nails to the ends of the posts and the rafters.

Intermediate to the upper and lower ends of the rafters I provide boxes 1 f having sockets 15 therein to receive the upper ends of posts 16 which form the uprights on each side of the doorway. These posts are readily removable from the sockets, as well as the posts 13, so that the frame of the tent can be easily and quickly reduced to a knock-down form and compactly bundled for transportation on the running board or other part of an automobile. The post 13 and the rafters are provided with a series of hooks 17 having shanks 18 which projeot through the rafters and posts and secured therein by suitable means, such as nuts 19. These hooks serve the double function of holding the upright end wall panels 20, the side wall panels 21 and the roofv panels 22 in place. The manner of mounting the end and side wall panels is illustrated in Figure 3, wherein 28 represents an eyelet or grommet inserted in the canvas and adapted to receive the hooks sliding thereon to a point close against the surfaces of the posts, while the projecting ends of the roof panels to the rafters, said roof panels having grommets therein corresponding to those in the side and end wall panels.

Instead of making the roof sections in one piece, which would be too bulky to be rolled and packed in one place on a car, I divide these sections into a series of longitudinal panels and for the purpose of making joints bet-ween these panels rain and wind proof, I prefer to provide brackets 24 secured to the upper edges of the rafters and having straight sections 25 at right angles to the edges of the rafters to which sections bars 26 are connected at each end of the tent with their inner ends lapping by each other and held in lapping relation by guide loops These loops permit the bars tos'lide one upon another and adjust themselves as the rafters are pulled apartby the tension of the guy ropes in tightening or tensioning the roof panelsi These straight sections 25 of the brackets and the bars connecting them lengthwise the tent cause offsets substantially right angled to be formed in the roof panels, as indicated in Figure 1, such offsets being several inches from the edge of the panel and positively preventing rain or wind from blowinginto the tent between the lapping edges of the panels. g

In setting up the tent, the bars comprising the skeleton frame are first raised with. the post supporting the rafters and then the rails connecting the brackets of the rafters are put in place and secured by suitable means, such as pins or nails, capable of convenient removal, and when this has been done, the canvas panels are put in place, the side and end walls first, with the pins in the posts, and rails enter the grommets in the panels, and then over the edges of the wall panels the roof sections are stretched and engaged with the hooks at the ends, the lower edge of the upper roof panels overlapping the upper edge of the panel liclit beneath. When the ridge pole has been put in place, the guy ropes may be tightened, pulling the rafters at the ends of the tent apart and putting the roof panels under tension. A suitable roll flap 28 is provided for closing the tent doorway;

In taking down the tent, the roof panels can be first unhooked and rolled separately, if preferred, and the wall panels may then be removed and also rolled to make small separate parcels for distribution in different parts of the car, thus allowing the tent to be packed for transportation without filling the seating space of the tonneau, where usually it has been necessary to place the folded tent. In this way I am able to effect a considerable economy in transportation space. The rafters and posts may be bundled together and carried on the running board or any other suitable place.

I claim as my invention:

1. A tent comprising a frame having rafters and supporting posts, end and side wall panels mounted on said posts and rafters and roof panels having their ends connected to saktrafters over the upper portions of said wall panels, a ridge pole connecting therafters and means for pulling the rafters outwardly to tension the roof panels.

2.11 tent comprising a frame having rafters, a ridge pole between them and posts supporting said rafters, rails connecting said rafters intern'iediate to their ends and roof panels stretched over said rails between said rafters with their abutting longitudinal edges in lapping relation, said rails forming offsets or angles in said panels.

A tent comprising a frame, a roof composed of a series of panels stretched over said frame, with lapping edges and means for formingotl'sets in the lapping surfaces of said panels.

4. In a tent, rafters and supporting post-s therefor, brackets mounted on said rafters,

rails connecting said brackets between the rafters at the ends of the tent and roof panels stretched between said rafters and over said brackets and rails and having olfsetsor angles formed therein by said brackets and rails.

5-. A tent comprising fran'ic having rafters and supporting posts and hooks mounted in said rafters and posts, wall panels having grommets to receive said hooks androof panels having lapping edges stretched between said rafters and having grommets to receive said hooks and covering and concealing the upper edges of said wal panels.

6. A tent comprising end rafters and supporting posts therefor, a ridge pole having its ends loosely mounted at the juncture of the pairof rafters for freedom of longitudinal movementwith respect thereto, guy ropes connected with said rafters for separating the opposite pairs and a flexible wall and roof covering. I

7. A tent comprising a ridge pole, illn'lgllt posts, end rafters supported thereby and having bearings for said pole and movable back and forth with respect thereto, a roof covering connecting said rafters over said ridge pole, and guy ropes connected with said rafters for drawing them outwardly and tightening said covering.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of March, 1922-.

AUGUST W. SKOG. 

